CenturyTel of Northwest Arkansas

CenturyTel of Northwest Arkansas, LLC
TypePrivate company (Subsidiary of CenturyLink)
IndustryTelecommunications
PredecessorGTE Southwest
Founded1999
HeadquartersLittle Rock, AR, US
ProductsLocal Telephone Service
ParentBrightspeed
Websitewww.brightspeed.com

CenturyTel of Northwest Arkansas, LLC is a telephone operating of Brightspeed providing local telephone services to northwest Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. The company was founded in 1999 when CenturyTel purchased access lines in Arkansas from GTE which had been a part of GTE Southwest.[1] in 2009, the company began doing business as CenturyLink reflecting its parent company's new name.

In 2022, the company was among the local operating companies sold by Lumen Technologies, as CenturyLink had become known, to form Brightspeed. The purchase closed on October 3, 2022.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Company News; Gte is in $843.3 Million Deal with Centurytel". The New York Times. The Associated Press. June 30, 1999.
  2. ↑ "The Lumen 20-State ILEC Divestiture to the Brightspeed Closes". Telecompetitor. October 3, 2022. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
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